Antipsychotics are the standard of care when it comes to the treatment of Schizophrenia, and they are often used in Bipolar as well. Their use can come with adverse effects such as extrapyra...
This review is intended to guide primary care providers in differentiating patients with bipolar depression from those with unipolar depression and inform patient management. Up to 64% of cl...
Mood disorders and problematic substance use co-occur and confer reciprocal risk for each other. Few studies use analytic approaches appropriate for testing whether specific features of one ...
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mood disorder with subtypes characterized by episodes of mania, hypomania, and/or depression. BD is associated with substantial economic burden, and the bipolar I ...
Chronotherapy is a treatment for mood disorders, including major depressive disorder, mania, and bipolar disorder (BD). Neurotransmitters associated with the pathology of mood disorders exhi...
Population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) models of valproic acid (VPA) have been developed to aid individualized drug dosing, but most of these have been based on the treatment of epileptic patien...
To assess the prevalence of bipolarity and its impact on clinical course, psychiatric consultants' diagnostic impressions and respective treatment outcomes were examined for patients with de...
Although many studies found an association between psychiatric disorders, especially major depressive disorder, and vitamin D deficiency, little is still known about the association between ...
A high seizure threshold (ST) is an impeding factor in certain patients, potentially preventing a successful electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment. Several pharmacological and non-pharma...
It has been proposed that different stages of bipolar disorder may be underpinned by distinct neurobiological substrates. However, structural neuroimaging studies in early stages of the illn...
Clinical research has consistently established mental health conditions (MHCs) as frequent comorbidities of epilepsy. However, the extent of economic burden of comorbid MHC in patients with ...
The relationship between cognitive function and relapse of affective episodes in bipolar disorder (BD) is rarely studied. The aim of this prospective, longitudinal, case-control study was to...
In healthy populations, caffeine appears to have beneficial effects on health; however, patients with bipolar disorder (BD) are routinely advised to limit caffeine use in psychoeducation pro...
The impact of guideline concordance on naturalistic maintenance treatment outcomes in BD is not known. We sought to evaluate the effect of guideline-concordant care on symptomatic, course an...
Condition-specific quality of life (QoL) instruments are more representative of the priorities of people with lived experience. As such, the development of the first and only bipolar disorde...
Mounting evidence highlights the link between screen time and adolescent mood problems. However, there are several shortcomings to the extant literature: (1) this link is underexplored in pr...
In total, 14% to 30 % of individuals with gambling disorder engage in illegal acts to finance such behavior. This clinical situation could be explained by higher gambling severity, associat...
A few studies have suggested that the adjunctive use of ant-inflammatory agents like minocycline and celecoxib for bipolar disorder may improve the depressive symptoms of bipolar disorder. T...
Reports of psychiatric morbidity associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection tend to be limited by geography and patients' clinical status. Represe...
Lithium is an effective prophylactic and anti-manic treatment in bipolar disorder; however, its use is declining through perceived poor tolerance and toxicity. Lithium inhibits inositol mono...
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